Turning an HTML string into hiccup in Ruby

html_to_hiccup.rb

# This is gross: use Clojure unless you absolutely have
# to use Ruby.
# Required dependency: Nokogiri
# Use at your own risk.
def generate_hiccup parsed_html
  if parsed_html.is_a?(Nokogiri::HTML::DocumentFragment)
    parsed_html.children.map { |child| generate_hiccup child }
  elsif parsed_html.is_a?(Nokogiri::XML::Element)
    [
      parsed_html.name,
      parsed_html.attributes.values.inject({}) do |acc, curr|
        acc[curr.name] = curr.value # ugh why does Ruby return the *assigned* value rather than the result of the assignment??
        acc
      end,
      *parsed_html.children.map { |child| generate_hiccup child }]
  elsif parsed_html.is_a?(Nokogiri::XML::Text)
    parsed_html.content
  end
end